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n. Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)

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But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago.

JOHNROBERTS: Al Gore there, giving his acceptance speech upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, what they call the Nobel lecture there, speaking about climate change in the most urgent of terms, saying we're at the 11th hour, almost at the point, Veronica, of no return.

But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago. â¨â¨Mario Vargas Llosa resisted and eventually his carefully chosen words have become much more significant and longer lasting than the flood of verbiage that spills from our island stage.

So far, Di Tella and MacCulloch seems eerily similar to a passage in Nobel-prize-worthy Anne Krueger's "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society," published over three decades ago: If the market mechanism is suspect, the inevitable temptation is to resort to greater and greater intervention, thereby increasing the amount of economic activity devoted to rent seeking.